Palestinian legislators called for dissolving the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) in response to Israel's arrest of Palestinian Parliament Speaker Aziz Dweik on Saturday, a Palestinian daily reported on Monday.

The Ramallah-based al-Ayyam Daily reported that Palestinian lawmakers were pushing for the dissolution of the PNA since Israel continued disrespecting the Palestinian laws and legislature.

"The best reaction to such arrests and policies is the dissolution of the Palestinian (National) Authority," Jamal Abu el- Robb, lawmaker from Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah movement, was quoted as saying.

He also accused Israel of attempting to push the Palestinian people into a civil war by detaining Dweik and other Hamas lawmakers and ministers.

Meanwhile, Hamas lawmaker Mahmoud Meslleh said that there was an increasing call among the Palestinians for dissolving the PNA.

"If the authority is dissolved, the Israeli occupation will be put into an embarrassed situation, and then the entire Palestinian cause will draw attention of the whole world," said Meslleh.

On Saturday night, Israeli forces stormed into Dweik's house in the West Bank city of Ramallah and arrested him.

Israeli troops rounded up eight Hamas cabinet ministers and over 20 Hamas lawmakers in the West Bank in late June, shortly after starting a massive air and ground offensive in the Gaza Strip to rescue a soldier kidnapped by Gazan gunmen and halt Palestinian rocket fire.

The PNA, an interim administrative body, was established in 1994 in accordance with the Oslo peace accords signed between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization.

Source: Xinhua